Birthday Time at an Arabian Horse Farm

Considering the most recent events here, today is a particularly special day with Lindsay celebrating her 28th birthday. Ever since her treatment for brain cancer each birthday has been sweet but there's nothing like a serious accident to freshen that resolve to live each day like it's going to be the last and make each birthday all the more special. We're really glad to have Lindsay still here with us.

We had our usual busy day here with all these Arabian horses. I had an appointment with the farrier at the other barn and with farrier appointments being hard to come by there way now way I could cancel for Lindsay's birthday. So Legs got new shoes and the other four got trims. Dandy will get his new shoes tomorrow.

Then when I got home it was time to deal with the horses here. Since the weather changed Lindsay spent part of the day putting shavings into stalls and filling water buckets anticipating the fore casted rain. By late afternoon the rain had arrived and Dave and I actually put all the horses back inside into stalls for the first time since Lindsay got hurt.

I think all of them were glad to get in out of the elements except Solidare who has bonded big time with Scarlet. The mare wanted to stay and hang out outside Lucy and Scarlet's stall despite getting drenched. You'd think with her arthritis she's want to be in a nice dry stall. But that mare is dying for a baby of her own and since she's not got one she's going to stay close to the only baby on the place.

Then there was Louie who took one look at me in my yellow rain slicker and said "NO way!" He went running off like the devil was after him...........snorting and blowing. The darn horse can trot level when he gets excited and I was thinking that Mike Whelihan should see him now. I'm sure he'd be wondering where this western horse stallion of mine got the genes for that kind of trot. I did finally managed to catch Louie but not before I rolled up my crinkly sleeves so they didn't "touch" the poor boy.........silly horse!

Once the horses were all tucked in to their nice clean dry stalls (it only took me the whole three weeks to get them clean! LOL). We got ourselves cleaned up and headed down the road to Red Lobster for Lindsay's birthday dinner.

We had a leisurely meal and Lindsay and I both gorged ourselves by also having dessert! But we spared her the humiliation of the waiters and waitresses singing "Happy Birthday" to her. Instead I hummed it to her in her sweet little ear. Poor girl...........I was so out of tune.

Happy Birthday, Lindsay!